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Brachioradial Pruritus

Posted by laisseraler @laisseraler, Oct 8, 2019

I have had this problem for 3 months now, it is driving me crazy, itching day and night no sleep because of constant itching, scabbing, bleeding from me scratching my arms from my elbows to my wrists. Kaiser has been treating it like an rash? with creams that never work? their spine clinic refuses to look at my spine as part of the cause?

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restisaweapon | @restisaweapon | Jun 17 3:07pm
In reply to @jm1 "Suffered on my upper arms and slept with ice packs for 4 yrs. While the Derm..." + (show)
@jm1

Suffered on my upper arms and slept with ice packs for 4 yrs. While the Derm Dr tried all sorts of creams. Mentioned it to my Neuro. He said try the capsaicin. It worked after a few hot burning applications. I believe it is medication side effect combined with chlorine and sun reaction. Sometimes get a little spark around forearm elbow and just put on the capsaicin rollon and it stops it.

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Hi jm
Glad you’re doing well.
If you do have Brachioradial pruritus. My understanding is that it’s not a skin issue so creams don’t help. It happens in the neck where a vertebrae disc touches the brachial (arm) nerve. That sends a message to the brain that the arm is itchy (or in some cases in pain).
The stretching exercise allows the disc to pull back from touching the nerve. So it deals with the cause of the itching not the symptom.

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